The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...

A small asteroid has been quietly following Earth’s orbit for decades—unseen, unbothered and, until recently, completely ...

Astronomers have found yet another quasi-moon companion of Earth in its orbit around the Sun believed to be a chunk of our ...

Earth has a new friend — and it's been waiting for us to notice it for decades. In a new study published in the journal ...

Earth has a hidden moon that has been sharing its orbit since the 1960s, researchers claim A new astronomical body has been ...

The total number of quasi-satellites of our planet has gone up by one. There are now 8 small asteroids going around the Sun ...

A recently observed object called 2025 PN7 was found orbiting near the Earth. The quasi-moon is expected to accompany our ...

Earth’s orbit around the Sun isn’t a perfect circle—it’s slightly elliptical. Each year, around July 2 or 3, Earth reaches its farthest point from the Sun, known as aphelion. Around January 2 or 3, ...

The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite, formed approximately 4.5 billion years ago from debris ejected after a massive impact with Earth. Despite appearing the same size as the Sun from Earth, ...

Asteroid 2024 PT5 is considered Earth's mini-moon and may be a key target for potential asteroid mining operations.